| Description | Please join us for “Life After the MFA,” a conversation about literary and artistic pathways through and beyond the Master of Fine Arts. Bringing together alumni from the UW Seattle MFA in Creative Writing and the UWB MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics, this event is an opportunity to learn more about Ph.D. programs; careers in education, the arts, and publishing; and the process of sustaining creative community.
Artist Bios:
Ally Ang is a gaysian poet and editor based in Seattle, Washington. Their work has been published in Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology, Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, Foglifter, Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. They are a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, a Tin House workshop alum, and a 2022 Jack Straw Writers Program fellow. Ang holds a BA in sociology and Asian American studies from Wellesley College and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington. They are currently working on their first full-length poetry collection. When not writing, Ang can be found gazing longingly at bodies of water or doting on their cat, Gomez.
Emma Aylor is the author of Close Red Water (forthcoming October 2023), winner of the Barrow Street Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in New England Review, AGNI, Colorado Review, Poetry Daily, the Yale Review Online, and elsewhere. She lives in Lubbock, Texas, where she is a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at Texas Tech University.
Emma Carson is a queer poet, union worker, and attractive nuisance. She writes about disappointment, change, struggle, and other uncomfortable necessities. Her first book of poetry, The Divide Itself, comes out July 2023 (CHAT ROOMS Books). You can find her on Instagram @poemma.emma and on Facebook.
Brent Cox graduated from UW, Bothell's MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics in 2017. He holds a B.A. in English and Poetry from UCLA and he is a PhD Candidate in University at Buffalo's Poetics Program. He will defend his dissertation, Infrastructuralist Poetics, Spring 2023. Brent is the founder of the Topological Poetics Research Institute (TPRI, poeticsinstitute.com), an autonomous research group dedicated to the study of poetics, the event of poetry, and experimental platform publishing.TPRI is also home to Buried Text, a podcast on poetics, and they enact Ecopoetics Workshop, a 2-week residential workshop in Val Taleggio, Italy co-organized with Simon Eales, Courtlin Byrd, and Brooke Bastie. His work has recently appeared in OEI, &&&, and P-Queue, and has screened at the Electronic Literature Organization's 2022 Conference in Lake Como, Italy and at the University of Cambridge. He also runs a coffee blog on instagram: @purehappinesscoffee
Rasheena Fountain is an essayist and poet from Chicago's west side, now living in Seattle. Her work focuses on nature, environmental justice, Black environmental memory, decolonization, land, and Blackness. She has been published or is forthcoming in Hobart, Penumbra Online, Jelly Bucket, The Roadrunner Review, Crazyhorse, You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography, and more. In 2018, Fountain started an online project, Climate Conscious Collabs, in response to the need for more Black environmental relationships in the media. This work has engaged a “nontraditional” environmental audience, as well as mainstream organizations like the North American Congress for Conservation Biology, which used her work during their annual conference in 2020. She has BA in Rhetoric from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a MA.Ed. in Urban Environmental Education from Antioch University Seattle. Fountain has a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington Seattle, where she is currently a Ph.D. student in English literature and culture.
Liezel Moraleja Hackett is a writer and choreographer with culinary tendencies. She received an MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics from the University of Washington Bothell. She is a contributing writer at Write or Die Magazine, with works in Sampaguita Press’ Sobbing in Seafood City Vol. 1, Clamor Literary Journal (2017, 2018), UOG Press’ Storyboard: A Journal of Pacific Imagery, and Ponyak Press’ The Friday Haiku.
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